DOD taps CSC for high-performance computing assist
The Defense Department has awarded Computer Sciences Corp. four task orders worth more than $82 million to support the Defense High-Performance Computing Modernization Program.
Open-source directory seeks info about government projects
The Center of Open Source and Government this fall will publish a directory of open-source projects within agencies and large companies.
Expect tighter security at show
Visitors to the new Washington Convention Center can expect tighter security at FOSE this year, the event's organizers said Monday.
E-government, homeland security center stage at FOSE
How to take the next step in e-government portal services - including taxing, education and health-care records - is on the discussion agenda in the E-Town Theater sessions at FOSE's first day.
DOD procurement chief: DFARS grants special buying authority for war
As the military battles on, Defense Department procurement officials can apply a special rule in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to speed buys supporting overseas operations.<br>
Springer is new OMB controller
Linda M. Springer was comfirmed by the Senate as the new controller of the Office of Management and Budget.<br>
GAO finishing up IT investment framework
GAO is finishing up the first full release of its IT Investment Management Framework.<br>
Air operations center gets speedy IT accreditation
Information systems at the Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar had to be certified and accredited before the center could begin directing air activity in Iraq. For SecureInfo Corp., it was a rush job. <br>
Defense ready to unify financial architecture
IBM Corp. is expected soon to release a financial enterprise architecture that will underlie the merger of about 1,800 disparate Defense Department money systems. <br>
DOD intelligence unit will begin operating in June
Stephen A. Cambone, the Defense Department's former director of program analysis and evaluation, is setting up an organization to better share intelligence information across DOD and with other agencies.<br>
DOD lays out enterprise architecture plans
The Defense Department next year will start integrating a common set of information services over the Global Information Grid.<br>
Packet Rat: Quel odeur! The Rat smells, well, a rat
'First we ate 'freedom fries,' ' the Rat growled. 'Now we've got congressional heartburn.'
Friends welcome Davis to reform committee chair
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), newly named chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, was feted at a Washington steakhouse dinner recently by friends in government and industry. The Virginia Republican has many IT contractors and federal employees in his district, and he worked for a major contractor before going into politics. Davis, left, makes a point to Sudhakar Shenoy, chairman of Information Management Consultants Inc. of McLean, Va.
FOSE opens up at new digs
Workers put the finishing touches last week on the new Washington Convention Center, which opens this week with FOSE 2003.
People on the Move
NASA last month tapped its deputy systems chief, <b>Patricia L. Dunnington</b>, to take over as CIO. Dunnington had been deputy CIO since August 2002. She first came to work at NASA in 1982 as a presidential management intern in the Office of Aerospace Technology. She moved up the ranks of the agency's systems management, including a stint as CIO for the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
Post-war telecom in Iraq: CDMA or GSM?
One day after learning that the Defense Department wants to use the European Global System for Mobile Communications wireless protocol to build a cellular system in postwar Iraq, Rep. Darrell Issa launched a pre-emptive strike in the House.
DOD re-ups satellite comm contract
The Defense Department has exercised the first one-year option of its Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services contract, which supplies secure global communications 'across the entire spectrum of the deployed military,' said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Augustine J. Ponturiero of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
Environmental data centers urged toward 'bleeding edge'
A National Research Council committee studying federal environmental data centers recommends more use of commercial and open-source software and to 'aggressively adopt newer, 'bleeding edge' technical approaches where there might be significant return on investment.'
Behind digital battlefield lies digital logistics chain
From the dashboard PC in his Humvee, a soldier clicks on a map sent out by his commander. The map shows where he is, where he needs to be, where he can find friendly forces and where the enemy is.
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